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Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's war drama The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. He also became the second American male actor to win the César Award for Best Actor for the same film. For his role as a Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States in The Brutalist (2024), he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and earned his second Academy Award Nomination and subsequent win for Best Actor. Brody has also starred in The Thin Red Line(1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Hollywoodland (2006), Cadillac Records (2008), Predators (2010), and See How They Run(2022). He has frequently collaborated with filmmaker Wes Anderson, appearing in his films The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox(2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021), and Asteroid City(2023). He portrayed Salvador Dalí in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011) and Arthur Miller in Andrew Dominik's Blonde (2022). On television, he has played Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders (2017) and Pat Riley in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023). He earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his roles as Harry Houdini in the History Channel miniseries Houdini (2014), and investor Josh Aaronson in the HBO series Succession (2021).
Poland, 1944. A young Erik Lehnsherr is brought to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he is taken to be seperated from his parents. While he is taken away he tries to reach for his parents where he causes the metal gates to bend towards him, manifesting his mutant abilities to be able to create magnetic fields and control metal manifesting. He gets knocked out by the guards and is taken in with the other children. In New York City of the same year, a young Charles Xavier lives a wealthy life as the son of nuclear researcher Dr. Brian Xavier and his wife Sharon. It was at a young age that he discovered his telepathic abilities, once he discovered his powers and abilities he had a dream of living in a world where mutants and humans could coexistence in harmony. A dream he would look to fulfill once he grew up.
